Best Porch Light and Camera Options for Teardrop Campers

[Sara-TNT]

Hello - I am building a 5x10 teardrop following Tony's book. I would love to get other campers thoughts on whether a porch light is needed and ideas for back up cameras and security cameras.
Thanks!

 

[halfdome Danny]

I have always put a porch light over each door and one near the tongue box. They come in handy when going to the restroom you can find your teardrop. I also put LED lights under each door and the galley. That makes having a semi lit campsite without infringing on other campsites and it looks great. A back up camera would come in handy, I just never got around to getting one.
Danny

 

[Tony Latham]

The problem I have with teardrop "porch lights" is that they are at eyeball level, and they will ruin your night vision.

Flashlights work great for casting about the darkness.

Tony

 

[Tom&Shelly]

I took some of Shelly's finger-nail polish and painted the LEDs on our porch lights. They aren't too blinding and are distinctive when we need to navigate back in a busy campground after dark.

Also, the red lights seem to attract fewer bugs, sometimes.

Tom

 

[Wandering Sagebrush]

I suspect you can buy porch lights that aren’t bright white, and you could also put lights under doors to illuminate the ground.

 

[GTS225-TNT]

I bought this camera last year for my tear, but my tear is covered with steel sheet. You might have to attach a steel panel for it to stick to.

Worked great....battery-powered, magnetic mount, NO wiring to run, and the range is doggone good for what it is.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C58SGGVW?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title

Roger

 

[Shadowcatche]

We do have porch lights with yellow lenses (less bugs) and do not seem to hurt nigh vision all that much. We now have a HaloView backup camera The successor to this one. It is connected to running lights and is on all the time. This one a Podofo we found picked up cell tower interference and other cameras,we once saw us passing some one else once. One other had the camera leak and it died.